Bethlehem Steel
Subtitle: builder and arsenal of America
By: Kenneth Warren.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780822943235
Subjects: Bethlehem Steel Corporation -- History; Steel industry and trade -- United States -- History
Description: "In Bethlehem Steel, Kenneth Warren considers Bethlehem Steel's investment failures, indecision, and delay in choosing to abandon or restructure outdated "integrated" plants - all factors that plagued what had become an insular, inward-looking management group. Meanwhile, competition increased from more economical "mini mills" at home and from new, technologically superior plants overseas, which drove world prices down, causing huge flows of imported steel into the United States." "Bethlehem Steel provides a fascinating case study in the transformation of a major industry from one of American dominance to one where America struggled to survive."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The early years and the decline of the anthracite iron industry; title: The establishment and growth of iron and steel making in Bethlehem; title: Failure in commercial steels, 1880-1899; title: Armaments and ores; title: Reorganizing and redirecting Bethlehem Steel; title: War materiel, ships, and commercial products, 1904-1914; title: Wartime activity, expansion, and mergers, 1914-1923; title: Bethlehem Steel in the 1920s boom; title: Retrenchment, reconstruction, and war, 1930-1945; title: Material supplies, growth, and competition in the east, 1945-1957; title: Steel making in the far west and midwest; title: Shipbuilding, steel, and labor in Bethlehem's peak years; title: Responding to crises in the 1980s; title: Paring away the unviable; title: Hope and hope dashed: trade and rationalization during the 1990s; title: Into the abyss; title: Epilogue: the roots of decline.